Hiiro No Kakera: Season 1

Enjoyable!!
Okay, so I just finished both seasons like a week ago with english sub, and enjoyed so much that I thought I would buy it japanese with english sub if need be. So I get on here and then I realize they are dubbing the series in 2 months....lol *face palm*....I like the characters and even though they could have done with a little more action and less school/cheer up time, the story was interesting enough to keep me watching....even though I had to hang on for the first few episodes....not to mention the 2nd season is a head and shoulders better than the first...it sums up the series pretty good and has a lot more romance...but what can I say, you can't watch the 2nd season without watching the 1st, but the 1st desperately needed the 2nd to clear things up and make things more entertaining.
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Love it!
I loved this anime and I loved it dubbed in english. It was very clear and had no problems with the dvd at all. Can't wait for season 2. I have it on back order for November!

Anime was Good
its came in good condition with no problem it is an excellent anime and it was amazing to watch and see

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WWE: For All Mankind- The Life and Career of Mick Foley [Blu-ray]

Great retrospective on a great career
I have seen some reviews of this blu ray as well as some of the other more recent WWE blu ray releases where the reviewers are very critical of the content. Most of these reviews focus on the match selection on disc two or disc three of a three disc set. And there are reviews out there that will tell you specifically which matches are included and so if you are making your decision based on what matches are included that information is available. One of the reviews that I read complained about the fact that there aren't any Mick Foley/Sabu matches and that there aren't any Mick Foley/Terry Funk matches. I think that the reason for that is that there have been other WWE DVD and blu ray releases that cover that and so they tried to put together a set with matches that haven't been included in the other sets some fans are likely to own. To that end there are some gems here that haven't been put in other sets. But for me, really, the bottom line is that you get a full length video about...

Looks like a great documentary with underwhelming match listing
Here's the complete match listing for Mick Foley's latest WWE DVD/Blu-ray set. The biography looks great, but the match listing is nothing to get excited about. I understand that they didn't want to have several repeats from Mick's previous set, but in this case, I think they needed to include some of those matches. No Sabu matches? No Terry Funk matches? Come on! At least we will finally be getting the Hell in a Cell match with the Undertaker uncensored with the original WWF logo intact for the first time on DVD or Blu-ray. Again, the documentary looks tremendous and in-depth, but the match listing is really lacking.

Updated on April 18th: I have just viewed the Blu-ray and I gotta say, the documentary is 'Have a Nice Day' the cliff notes edition. Most parts of Mick's life and career are quickly skimmed over or completely ignored. No mention at all about Mick spitting on the WCW Tag Team Titles during his ECW debut against Sabu which enraged the powers that be at WCW...

A career fulfilled and a legacy etched in stone
"The Hardcore Legend", "Ms. Foley's Baby Boy", he was Dude Love, Cactus Jack, Mankind, whatever you want to call him, fans around the world know Mick Foley as one of the most daring and risk taking people ever in professional wrestling. This set chronicles his career from humble beginnings to the stardom he earned through his blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice in and out of the ring.

The bio begins with his growing up, how he became a wrestling fan from an early age even doing some amateur wrestling in high school. He and close friends talk about how he did writing in middle and high school, which obviously influenced him to write three New York Times Bestsellers later in his WWE career. His love of wrestling really took off when he saw Jimmy Snuka do his famous dive off the cage onto Don Muraco in '83, sometime after this he began to train for professional wrestling in unusual fashion to say the least, jumping off of roofs onto matresses, for example. But he did end up...

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Fit Family Fun: Circuit with Tonya Larson

Perfect family workout
This just what I was looking for. I needed something I could work out to with my kids, but all of the kid-themed workout videos are pretty lame and they turned their noses up at the silliness. This video looks like a regular adult workout, but the instructor's family is working out along with her, right down to the baby in the dad's carrier. We're really enjoying it. The exercises are simple and effective and it's great for my kids to have other little ones to follow along with.





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Dressed

Need More
We need more documentaries about the real artists out in the world struggling and not those born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

Excellent Roll Model!
Nary is an excellent roll model. He was dealt a crappy hand coming into this world and he rose above it and didn't loose himself to his circumstances. Wish we could all find that kind of strength. He is a very gifted designer, I think he will go far in his career. Thank you for making this movie.

Makes me Want to Get Dressed
If you love fashion, the world of fashion and EVERYTHING FASHION, then you must see this movie. and if you just like a great awe-inspiring movie- then this is for you too :) I adored it.

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At the Gate of the Ghost [Blu-ray]

Good Story
I expected this to be a grand martial arts movie with lots of action scenes. Instead I found a really well told story with lots to consider. Thoroughly enjoyable.

A very, very good movie.
Incredibly interesting and well made movie. The premise of three different interpretations of the same event by three different people, all with something to gain is intriguing. The young monk who is seeking the truth is very well played. This is a quality movie that deserves a wide viewing.

Great action film
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie. Am an avid martial arts fan, this movie did not disappoint. I highly recommend it.

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Sugar Ball

JINKX!
Jinkx deserves to win! Roxxy may be the meanest bully EVER on Ru Paul and I can't wait to see her leave. Go Jinkx! Fight for all the misfits with talent!

LIVING!
This show is AWESOME! Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent! I highly recommend this for it's hilarious dialogue! And the fierce yunches!

Start your engines, and may the best woman, win!
Untucked! Where we can get the all the t and shade among our queens. Learn their secrets and struggles to becoming who they are. Also, these queens read each other to filth!

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Openings: The Search For Harry

Inspirational
The movie perhaps can speak to those whose life path is on a trajectory leading to transformation. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it many times.

Rihab Sawah





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Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Colorful Musical Biography from 20th Century Fox
I love 1940s Fox musicals so I am a little biased,
and I understand that this is may not be to everyone's
liking. If you are a fan of June Haver and / or Dick Haymes,
there is much to enjoy, especially if you like romantic ballads.

Dick Haymes plays Ernest Ball, songwriter of many popular tunes
of the day. June Haver plays his love interest but does
not perform any musical numbers until the last 30 minutes of the film.
Both are a bit stiff when it comes to acting, but fare much better
as musical performers. A little bit of Monty Woolley goes a long way
for me. Anthony Quinn has the best acting role.

The print that Fox used to make the dvd, looks pretty good.
The colors are rich and vibrant and overall, they did a very nice
job bringing this Technicolor musical to dvd.

There are no dvd extras.

Pleasant Fox musical
This is a typical 1940's Fox musical - June Haver, Monty Woolley, Technicolor, nice songs and the most improbable ending in musicals. However, it's fun and harmless and tuneful. Like they say - they don't make 'em like this anymore. But I'm a sucker for the old musicals. Plus the Fox DVD is in a perfect edition.

A Sweet and Lovely Melodrama
Wonderful music and a sweet melodrama with good acting , specially by Monty Woolley.
A wonderful story too! A very young Antony Quinn as the gangster cum financer.

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Yoga Journal: Total Body Yoga 2 Disc Set

Sloppy editing
I can only review practice 3 on disc one. I have watched the others but not performed them. First, the practice is incorrectly called standing hip openers; it is not that; it is a 25 minute practice is aimed at getting you ready for meditation and if you go to the yoga journal web site it is described correctly. Secondly, Baron Batiste, who leads the practice, does pigeon on the right side and not on the left side; an un-balanced practice.
Clearly this DVD set was thrown together with little attention to detail. As I do more of the practices on this DVD I'll be able to say more. It's too bad, because the Batiste practice is not bad, except for the omission of pigeon on the left side. It is very hard to find good yoga DVD's.

Another Disappointment from YJ
This is a two disc set from Yoga Journal that indicates there are 3 workouts on each disc. Disc 1 claims to have as the 3rd title, Standing Hip Openers. Disc 2 claims to have as the 3rd title, Meditation Preparation. Well guess what? Both items are the Meditation Preparation. So instead of 6 workouts, I got 5 (well who knows? maybe fewer since there are still 3 workouts I haven't tried). I was really looking forward to the standing hip openers. This is the second YJ video I've had problems with, and I'm not likely to buy another product from them.

Complete and well done
Liked this DVD. So many focus on just specific weight loss or body parts and poses. This is well-rounded and a 2 disc set so fairly complete. I find myself using this more and more and my others less and less. I am enjoying it very much thanks.

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I Don't Care Girl

A must for Mitzi fans!
Ths plot frame for this 1953 technicolor musical is the career of the wild girl of the early 20th century, singer Eva Tanguay, seen from the perspective of more than one supposed witness. The screenplay doesn't always make a lot of sense and is full of the sort howling anachronisms typical in period films of the time...not to mention that Eva's Sybaritic life is squeezed into the prim corset of the Hays Code, still in effect through 1968. Despite all this, Mitzi Gaynor was the perfect choice for the role, fitting right in with all the manically sexy choreography and over-the-top costumes--for the latter of which, at least, the real Eva was notorious.
The meat of this movie is not the bogus biography but rather Mitzi's incredible talent. In general, she is the true triple threat -- dancing, singing, and acting -- but, above all, on the musical stage she is a pure genius. In every one of the five or so big numbers she does, she exhibits a different style appropriate to the...

THE WORST WONDERFUL MUSICAL
Must have been a real bore until Jack Cole was called in to stage 3 numbers for the great Mitzi Gaynor. Too bad there are no chapter stops just for these show stoppers. Mitzi says that these are her favorite routines. It`s a shame that they stopped giving Oscars for dance in the late 30`s. These would certainly have been nominated. I never get tired of watching "The Johnson Rag", "I Don`t Care" and "Beale Street Blues". Fox has done a good job with this, but they could have removed the fallen feathers in "I Don`t Care".

Disappointing Musical
FOX really wasted Mitzi Gaynor and put her in one mediocre vehicle after another. THE I DON'T CARE GIRL is no exception. Loosely based on the life of entertainer Eva Tanguay, which purports to tell her story via flashbacks a la RASHOMON. The film suffers from very poor editing where some scenes never make sense. David Wayne appears and disappears and then reappears in the film. There are some fabulous musical numbers mostly choreographed by Jack Cole. Look for Gwen Verdon in one of these numbers. As with other FOX MOD's the color is erratic. At times it looks quite beautiful and at other time seems like too much red. This one is for Gaynor fans only.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3

The best season of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Now this is where it gets interesting! After the shortened and varied second season, The Next Generation finally gets going in the third season. Not only is the writing brilliant but the production values have had a shot in the arm. The revised title sequence is much stronger and the title music is re-mixed. The entire ship looks and sounds better too, with the new uniforms with the collars (much better).

A new director of photography was brought whose lighting technique allowed them to get rid of that "this is obviously filmed in a studio" look when creating planet side sequences. This season also has some of the best scores to accompany the series before it became a constant rehash of the same orchestral sequences later on in the programme. Ron Jones does a particularly excellent job, especially with "The Best of Both Worlds" and newcomer Jay Chattaway's score to "Tin Man" turned a mediocre episode into something more emotional.

This season shines with great episodes such as...

ST TNG 3
This third release of Star Trek The Next Generation on DVD contains all of the episodes of its third season. During the third season we see Dr. Crusher return to the series, we see Sarek (Spock's Father) and a favorite of many the Borg are back.

All 26 episodes are contained on 7 disks.

Evolution - The crew assists Dr. Paul Stubbs in a research experiment. Wesley accidentally releases nanites and the ship is plagued by serious malfunction and possible disaster.

The Ensigns of Command - Data is sent to Tau Cygna Five to evacuate the human settlers there before the Sheliak come to destroy them.

The Survivors - The Enterprise finds two survivors on Delta Rana IV, an old man and his wife who refuse to leave. Troi is being driven mad by music in her head, and Picard wrestles with an elusive alien vessel in orbit.

Who Watches the Watchers - Riker and Troi masquerade as Mintakans, in an attempt to find a missing anthropologist. Picard is seen and believed him to be a god.

The...

The measuring stick for the rest of the series
Is this the same TNG? Wow, so much so that I think fans often look back at season 3 as what propelled the show to its legendary status. Lets review the changes: first, it appears that many of the officers get new quarters. Data's quarters in seasons 1 and 2 resemble a receiving room in an airport hangar; here he and everyone else get really nice, spatious living areas. The uniforms have been mentioned by a number of people: they go from tight stretched, peel-off-to-undress-looking T-shirts and tights to collared, sweatshirt-resembling uniforms without that annoying seam down the middle of the chest. Now there is a place for command rank pips (there's a 1st season episode where Picard's pips are bunched together at one end and spread out at the other end!). There is a new and better title sequence. The crew begin to settle into their positions and pesonalities as well. Troi is more at ease, her empathic powers more even and toned down. Geordi, perhaps my favorite of the characters,...

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Reggie's Prayer

One of the Best Early Christian Theme Movies
I don't think anyone would say this is a great movie; some of the story seemed a bit far-fetched to me. The production quality, however, is certainly up to typical Hollywood standards, unlike most of the Christian movies made around the same time. Still, it is a wholesome movie with an outstanding message, that is akin to the story of the Good Shepherd leaving the main flock to look for one sheep that was lost. Reggie immediately let the team know that, unlike his professional football team's former coach's philosophy that winning at any cost was desirable, Reggie believed that winning honorably was an even higher achievement.

There is a subtle Christian message in this movie, but it is one of the first openly Christian movies that does not ram Christianity down one's throat. The movie maintains it excitement to the climax when Reggie fights the bad guys and then tracks down a kidnapped team member into the Oregon wilderness to try to rescue the boy. It is too bad...

Relevant to today's young people
I really enjoyed this movie... Reggie shows the importance of heroes and role models... He touches on social issues that are important to our times... shows young people the problems of drug dealing and gang violence... and touches on the importance of family... I really like this movie.

Worth watching Christian or not?
My name is Chief Petty Officer Richard L Moore, I acted as an extra in this movie while working in Portland, near Jefferson High School. Many of the students in the movie went to Jefferson High School. I was given a great opportunity to work with and communicate with this great man, Reggie White. We all got together to assist him in rebuilding his church in Texas. To see how he was moved by that effort validated his love of God, and his concern for others. See this movie and you will enjoy his humanity, which I believe proves to be as powerful with the church as he was with his sport's career. At these prices you can't afford to miss this movie.
Richard Moore

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Angels of Sex

Angels blossom with sexual fluidity.
Life alone isn't easy, with two its complicated. These words of wisdom
pretty much sums up "The Angels of Sex". A very well fleshed out
character study about several complicated relationship between three
people who refuse for conform to society's expectations, yet they
themselves struggle to surpass their own limitations of how love and
sex should be handled without prejudice. The film unspools the lives
and loves of Rai (Álvaro Cervantes), Carla (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) &
Bruno (Lloren

Top Action Stars - 8 Movie Collection

8 movie action combo
It's good to see action movies like these combined for ease of purchase. Any fan of action movies would find this a worth while buy.





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What Richard Did

Great elements, good film
This film seems to confirm and amplify Abrahamson's (Adam & Paul, Garage) considerable strengths as a film-maker, and,
to a lesser extent his frustrating weaknesses.

On the plus side, he is great with his actors, both in who he casts and what he gets out of them. His characters always feel
complex and real. He also sets up very convincing, morally ambiguous worlds, situations and people. No easy heroes and
villains.

But he also has a tendency to be drawn to melodramatic twists, and those actually make his films less interesting, not more,
as it feels like he's trying to force the emotional issues.

In many ways my favorite part of the film was the first 45 minutes before the central incident. Abrahamson excells at observing
and capturing the complexities of late teen-age life with subtlety and a fresh eye. These aren't the desperate angry street kids
of poverty, nor are they the morally bankrupt idiots we often see...

A Hero dies but once, the coward a thousand times.
This is a film from Ireland that introduces us to Richard Karlsen (Jack Reynor) who is the lad who has it all. Good at sport, all the girls fancy him, his parents are cool and he is even intelligent. The sort of guy that made you green with envy at school. He also has a girlfriend in Lara (Roisin Murphy) and his parents are so rich they have a holiday home. Unfortunately it is on the beach outside Dublin, so no need for the Factor 30 here but possible need for `wind smear', `drizzle cream' or `gloom juice'.

He has loads of mates who of course all look up to him, and the youngsters all want to bathe in the glow of his reflected love and glory. Then things take a turn for the sinister, when jealousy rears its' ugly head at one the `cool `parties things go very wrong, very quick. What follows will strip away the social veneers of a life of privilege and show him up for what he truly is.

Now I actually enjoyed this independent effort but there are a few issues with...

Terrific film...
Wonderful pace, slowly builds to a powerful story. Terrific acting, great script, perfect music -- just wonderfully made. Kudos to the director.

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A Certain Scientific Railgun: Season 1, Part 2

A Nice Conclusion To The Anime Series With A New But Still Generic Story Arc
The second box set shows the follow up an next story arc following the level upper story arc from the first season one box set with a new but pretty generic story plot that interconnects with the previous one as well. I would advise people to get the first set box as you might get confused somewhat as some of the episodes show integral past scenes or plots from the earlier episodes from before and you will get somewhat lost if you haven't seen them. Like with the first box set these episodes will have a nice intermix of action/comedy/drama/angst but for the most part the drama and angst are kept at a somewhat minimum level no where near series like Gundam Seed,Shiki or Death Note and the like. The animation is very well done as is the soundtrack and background scenery, the voice cast for both the subbed and dubbed did a terrific job playing their character roles. Unlike some this series will give a decent closing for fans so you won't feel annoyed or frustrated by some open or...

Good story - hope for a new season soon
Shortly after the Level Upper incident, things seem to be getting better around Academy City. But however the peace does not last long as a group called Skill out is going around attacking Esper students. How is the group supposed to stop them when they have something that can affect Espers - including the mighty Railgun, and does one of their own have a connection with the leader of the group. But of course everything is not all business, swimsuit modelling, festivals, and new friendships will develop - even when a new and more dangerous threat lurks in the shadows, with the missing children being the key to saving or destroying everything they know.

I liked this series, a good story with plenty of action and humor thrown in. The characters really develop well and the story really flowed well. a good watch

It pays to wait.
This is one of those titles that I'm glad I waited for the box-set on, I like to watch my series in their entirety, not necessarily in 'Marathon-Mode', but being able to pick up right where I left off when I get the time to instead of waiting for the 'next installement', so to speak.

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Explosive Cinema - 8 Exhilarating Movies

More Mill Creek High Quality Goodness
Another 8 movie pack from Mill Creek Entertainment, and another home run quality-wise. Most big budget studios aren't that smart when it comes to what the fans want on DVD, so they dump them off to a smaller company to do what they will with them. Luckily for us, Mill Creek DOES know what we want on DVD, and this 8 movie pack proves it. While these films may not be luxurious deluxe edition DVD 9's, we do get each film at a fairly decent bit rate (2 films per dual layer DVD), all in anamorphic widescreen, and all with Dolby Digital sound (some in 5.1). So go ahead big studios, keep shuffling off your unwanted gems to Mill Creek. They'll make sure we get them in good, sturdy additions, and our hard-earned cash can go to the company that cares about their customers. Here's a list of the films included and a brief synopsis.

Hollywood Homicide:
A pair of detectives investigate the murder of a rap group while pursuing their other full-time professions. Welcome to Hollywood...





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